10 Best Robin Cook Books

New York forensic pathologist Laurie Montgomery is troubled by a spike in drug overdose victims who seem unlikely users. As she battles office politics and mob-linked homicides, she uncovers a grisly scheme in which young professionals are dying so their organs can quietly be harvested.

Third-year medical student Susan Wheeler notices an alarming cluster of patients who slip into unexplained comas after routine surgery. Her search for the cause leads from Boston Memorial’s operating rooms to a chilling facility where brain-dead patients are being used as an illicit source of organs.

CDC epidemiologist Marissa Blumenthal is sent to investigate a deadly virus killing doctors and patients in a Los Angeles clinic. As similar outbreaks erupt across the country, she uncovers evidence that the epidemic may be engineered rather than random and that powerful interests want it hidden.

Neuroscientist Edward Armstrong discovers a mold in his girlfriend’s historic Salem house that may explain the town’s witch hysteria and also function as a powerful psychoactive drug. When he and his team test it on themselves and race to commercialize it, the line between research and madness blurs.

After losing his family and practice, ophthalmologist turned pathologist Jack Stapleton starts over at New York’s morgue. A string of lethal infections in hospitals linked to the same health-care conglomerate draws him into a conspiracy where bioterror, managed care, and corporate greed collide.

Desperate for another child, biomolecular researcher Victor Frank secretly alters an embryo to create a genetically enhanced son. At first the boy seems like a prodigy, but as he grows older Victor realizes his experiment has produced something brilliant, cold, and increasingly dangerous.

Surgeon Kim Reggis takes his young daughter out for a celebratory fast-food meal, only to watch her become desperately ill from E. coli poisoning. As he battles indifferent regulators and powerful meat interests, he races to expose the contamination before more families are destroyed.

A mobster’s body disappears from a New York morgue, and pathologists Jack Stapleton and Laurie Montgomery are left with only questions. Their search leads to a remote African facility where genetically altered primates are being bred for organ transplants, and the science has already slipped its leash.

At Boston Memorial Hospital, new chief surgery resident Noah Rothauser must investigate a series of operating-room deaths tied to the newest high-tech suites. Suspicion falls on a star surgeon and a glamorous anesthesiologist with multiple online personas, forcing Noah to decide whom to trust before more patients die.

Anesthesiologist Jeffrey Rhodes is blamed when a healthy woman dies under his care and is quickly ruined by a malpractice verdict. Convinced he was framed, he goes on the run to uncover who sabotaged his work and why someone is turning surgical mishaps into big business.